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Originally Posted by LSainsbury
Hi,
OK - I know the basics - point your dish with LNB at the Sky satellite. Our current dish is pointing south, but are there other Sky satellites I could point it at, if the dish was attached to a different side of the house?
Cheers
Lee
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Sky don't own satellites, they lease transponders off SES in the case of Sky Digital UK.
If you want to see what you could receive from the UK try
http://www.lyngsat.com/europe.html .Sky UK uses the satellites at 28.2E. Most of the other positions are occupied by non-English programming. Personally I can see satellites from the whole of that arc, that doesn't mean all, as some have beams directed towards America, Brazil or Israel. Hotbird at 13E is a good place to start as it's a very strong satellite (in signal terms) and has unencrypted programming from around the world which could be watched with any cheap free to air receiver. I know the Sky receiver I used to own would allow you to scan all frequencies but limited the SR options. As for finding Sky's position in the sky, looking to see where the other dishes in the area are pointing would be a fairly good start, then you'd need to tweak the signal. I couldn't imagine trying to set a dish up without a meter but it could be done with a lot of patience.